Each year, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) releases assessment and accountability results for students, schools and districts across the Commonwealth. They serve as a reminder of where we are with our collective efforts to improve the education Kentucky’s children receive in the classroom.
Pineville Middle School Teacher Kim Yates, who recently won a Kentucky Teacher Achievement Award, is dedicated to helping students learn how English language arts apply to their lives.
For more than two decades, Michele Bradley has been a familiar and inspiring educator within Bath County Schools. Now in her 26th year of teaching – with 24 of those years spent in the Bath County school district – Bradley has worked to become known in her school community as a dedicated educator, mentor and role model for her students and fellow colleagues.
As a former teacher, I believe there is no higher calling within a profession than to be a teacher. One of the joys I have each year as commissioner of education is to celebrate our best during the Kentucky Teacher of the Year ceremony.
Together with our instructional supervisors, we are opening the door for teachers who aspire to become principals, supervisors, and administrators to begin preparing for that next step in their careers.
The Family Friendly Schools initiative has shown us what’s possible, and we’re not done yet.
One of the premier events KDE hosts each year to further this effort is the Continuous Improvement Summit each September.
As a Title I school, Rosenwald Dunbar Elementary School (Jessamine County) is proud of its diverse population and is committed to meeting the needs of students from a variety of cultural and economic backgrounds.
To begin our (Family Friendly Schools) work, we formed a committee of stakeholders that represented our population. We sought out parents to join the partnership who were from diverse populations represented in our school.
Over the past school year, our school has undertaken a deeply meaningful journey to strengthen the partnership between home and school by becoming certified as a Family Friendly School.